Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Rensuke Oshikiri is the manga artist of High Score Girl – a love comedy of young fighting gamers in 90s. His name is actually on the book banding paper of Umehara: To Live is to Game as a person who recommends the manga.

The latest announcement confirmed that Ultra Street Fighter IV will be released worldwide via digital upgrade early June, around one month before Evolution 2014 which is scheduled on July 11-13.

Right now, we are hard at work to bring the game to all of our fans as soon as possible, and want to ensure there is enough time that players can practice to compete at Evolution 2014. As such, the digital upgrade will be available in early June for $14.99 (€14.99) on PS3 and Xbox 360. Following shortly after in August, is the digital upgrade for PC at $14.99 (€14.99), as well as the PS3 and Xbox360 full digital bundle and retail versions, which include all previously-released costumes for $39.99 (€39.99). Since our PC fans have to wait longer for the content, we have a special deal where they can get the full digital bundle including all of the previously-released costumes for only $29.99 (€29.99), also in August.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

A new fighting game Koihime Enbu is announced today for the arcades with its teaser site. The news article revealed that the game is the sequel of Shin Koihime Musou: Otome Taisen Sangokushi Engi (arcades, PC, PS3). It looks like a different developer is in charge of the new game however.

It's announced that Shin Koihime Musou: Otome Taisen Sangokushi Engi fighting game will be released on PlayStation 3 on February 20, 2014. The game will have online play feature not found in the PC version. It doesn't appear to have any other additional change. The standard edition is priced at 6,800 yen, 1,200 yen cheaper than the PC version.

Shin Koihime Musou: Otome Taisen was first released in the arcades in 2011. The PC version was released on May 31. Beast Note has a hands-on post here.

This 2D fighting game is based on one of the most famous adult game series Koihime Musou. A total of 39 episodes of the anime adaptation was released between 2008-2011. Both the original adult game and the anime have an official English localization.

Koihime Musou's setting is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The big difference is all the male characters were recreated as cute girls.

Notes
- F-Word and Zak Bennett (and Ryan Hart) did a good job commentating
the stream, focusing on play-by-play, no lame jokes or offtopics.
- The stream was nice having the replays of good moments after the games.
- The stream channel had the most viewers from this event, with over 20,000 viewers.
- Umehara won 50,000 SEK (Swedish Krona) prize money ($7620) for winning this tournament.
- Tokido provides pictures of Umehara: [1 (Stockholm arrival)][2][3][4][5][6]